WordPress is a state-of-the-art Blog and Website publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and easy to install on your MaineHosting Web Hosting Account. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Easily Create Web Pages
Easily Create Blog Posts
Easily Create Image Galleries
Easily Create Full Screen Slideshows
Easily Create Email Newsletters
Easily Update Website Content
Easily Post YouTube Videos and Other Media
Getting Started with WordPress 1-2-3:
Step 1.: Login to your cPanel and click on The MHS ToolBox, select WordPress, select Install, THAT'S IT!
Step 2.: Your WordPress login information will be instantly emailed to you. Login to your WordPress and start blogging!
Easily Add a Graphical Theme to customize the look and feel of your website
Go to: WordPress Themes, select and download a theme. Upload the theme via FTP to your website to ie: wordpress/admin/themes. Once uploaded the theme appears as a selection in your WordPress Themes in your WP Admin.
There are thousands of WordPress themes to choose from, from agriculture to zoology there is a theme for everyone.
Easily Add Plugins to your extend the functionality of your website
Go to: WordPress Plugins, select and download a plugin. Upload the theme via FTP to your website to ie: wordpress/admin/plugins. Once uploaded the plugin appears as a selection in your WordPress Plugins in your WP Admin.
If WordPress can't do it, someone has built a plugin that can, search engine optimization plugins, Podcasts plugins, YouTube plugins etc...
Intuitive and Easy to Use Webpage Editing Features
WordPress allows you to Build Websites, Blog, Create Pages, Create Photo Galleries, Links, Newsletters, Subscribe Me Lists, Automated Posts and much, much more. WP is much more than simple blogging software, it's a full featured website creation tool.
You can create a page and then set it as your homepage and create a nav that points to additional created pages.
You will also notice in this screenshot that you can click on HTML to directly edit the code of the page your are creating, or paste code from another document.
Easily Add Photos and Media - Add image galleries, slideshows and desplay videos is a snap!
Easier than any online program we've seen, uploading a single image, or a group of images is easy and fast with WordPress. In seconds you can create an entire online photo gallery, insert videos, or Flash.
Using the batch upload feature you can upload dozens of images at a time and select Insert Photo Gallery into Page or Post, it's that easy.
Once a media file has been uploaded to your WordPress it is available in your Media Library online to be used in future posts or pages.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art Blog and Website publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and easy to install on your MaineHosting Web Hosting Account. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
